Canada has employed strict restrictions in its efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic. But unlike in the United States, such measures have received very little pushback or politicization — until recently.
Truckers protesting a vaccine mandate have occupied the nation’s capital, Ottawa, for three weeks, leading Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare a state of national emergency.
We ask how Canada got to this point, and hear what the protest is like on the ground.
Guest: Catherine Porter, the Toronto bureau chief for The New York Times.
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